Speaking to the Recorder Mr Gapes said the result was a humiliating defeat for the prime minister and she has lost her authority.

He said going forward the country need’s a “totally new approach”.

“Parliament must take control and lance the boil,” he said.

“I am going to be voting for a no-confidence today - I think it will likely be defeated and then the Labour Party should call for a People’s Vote to get us out of this mess.”

He added that the “clock is ticking” and there isn’t much time before possibly coming out of the EU in March.

Mr Streeting said: “This was a crushing defeat for the Prime Minister’s deal.

“There are only two paths ahead of us: a painful Brexit, where we move further away from the EU at the expense of people’s jobs and livelihoods, or a pointless Brexit, where we are locked into EU rules and regulations without any say over them.

“This isn’t what people voted for. It’s time to accept that the promises made by the Leave campaign can’t be delivered and it is now time to ask the people in a new referendum if they still want to leave the EU - given what we know now - or whether they’d prefer to remain.”

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